New Free Diver - Spitting out Blood

[TicoDiver80]

I have recently began to push myself more in free diving in the last six months. Two weeks ago I did a personal best free diving the cave at Blue Springs in Orange City. I did three practise dives to "warm up." On the fourth I passed 45ft and came up just fine. On the 5th and final I made around 55 ft or so. I came up feeling good as well. I started to feel like I had congestion so I began spitting out. Shortly after I began spitting out blood for a duration of about 30 minutes first it stopped and then it came back a few more times. Besides the blood which alarmed me some, I felt perfectly fine. If any one can steer me the right way, I'm not sure if I got squeezed or if it had to do with the fact that I didn't tuck in my chin during the dives.

This past weekend I went back again just to practise decending slower and work on my ear equalization and after doing just another 45ft dive I came up and started spitting out blood again. Thanks for any help!

 

[mermaidgirl]

any blood from the nose? :blackeye

 

[Bill]

With your description, unless you are struggling very hard, it is probably a sinus problem. From experience, one week is not enough time for it to heal properly.

 

[cdavis]

At that depth, squeeze is extremely rare, theoretically not possible. None the less, I know one very experienced diver who gets squeezed almost that shallow, and at Blue, too. Congestion, tight feeling in the chest, spitting small amts of blood are his symptoms.

Have you any history of lung issues, infection, asthma, chemical exposure, surgery, small lung volume, anything??

If it is squeeze, chest flexibility exercises help, diaphragm stretch, intercostal stretch, some stretches with weights, etc. All of that is good for your diving anyway.

Connor

 

[azapa]

did you have raspy rough breathing after this, maybe a heavy feeling in your chest? It could last for hours, even a day, that would be a squeeze.

given the depth it sounds more like a big sinus bust though, but not easy to find such a big bust in warmer waters (springs) and relaxed dives..

IMHO warm ups are very important for depth, just a couple of pulldowns to 10M and you avoid so much risk.

 

[Lil Dragonfly]

I think that this thread and the other thread should be merged.

 

[glubglub]

Last time I had blood from respiratory tract it was my sinus capillaries bursting because I tried to equalize too fast. It was on my mask from the nose and I was spitting out a little rust colored phlegm. Oh well, live and learn. Just relax more on your next dive and don't push it too fast.